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SUMMARY:CANCELLED---History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Qiu Lin\, Simon Fraser)
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, this talk has to be cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances and will be rescheduled in the next academic year. \nThe History of Modern Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Qiu Lin\, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. Her main research areas are early modern philosophy\, history and philosophy of science\, and Chinese philosophy\, especially Chinese Islamic philosophy. Her work has received awards from the Philosophy of Science Association Women’s Caucus (now renamed as the DEI Caucus)\, the British Society for the History of Philosophy\, and the Metaphysical Society of America; additionally\, she has also won two subgrants from major John Templeton projects. \nTalk Title\nDu Châtelet on Sensory Perception\, Bodies\, and Simple Substances \nTalk Abstract\n\nIn chapter 7 of her magnum opus\, Foundations of Physics (1740 & 1742)\, Émilie Du Châtelet attempts to explain why we only ever experience extended bodies even if non-extended simple substances are the only beings that ultimately exist on the metaphysical ground floor. While Du Châtelet repeatedly praises Leibniz for his monadology\, she differs from him in one crucial respect in her thinking about the monad: for her\, monads are all ontologically interconnected with one another in such a way that together\, they form a “Metaphysical union” (§133). This raises some interesting but hard questions: Du Châtelet\, too\, holds that human souls are monads\, but how do they “fit” in the said Metaphysical union? What kind of relation do the internal states of the soul stand in with that of other union members? This paper provides answers to these questions on Du Châtelet’s behalf. By drawing attention to a passage that has so far received little scholarly attention\, I will reconstruct Du Châtelet’s account about sensory perception\, and argue that this account is key to understanding her explanation of bodies\, qua sensible beings\, in terms of monads\, qua beings beyond our sensory experience. \n\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the History of Philosophy Group explores topics in ancient and/or medieval philosophy\, the period from Descartes to Kant\, and Jewish philosophy from the medieval period to the 20th century.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/history-philosophy-group-talk-qiu-lin-simon-fraser/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Joseph K. Schear\, Oxford)
DESCRIPTION:The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Joseph K. Schear\, a regular faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Dr. Schear is interested in post-Kantian European philosophy\, especially phenomenology (Husserl\, Heidegger\, Sartre\, Merleau-Ponty); philosophy of mind (esp. the theory of intentionality); and some issues in metaphysics. Before moving to Oxford in 2008\, he worked for two years as an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at California Polytechnic State University\, San Luis Obispo. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled “Horizons of Intentionality: From Husserl to Heidegger.” \nDr. Schear will give a lecture on September 27\, as well as an all-day workshop on September 28. Please contact Tarek Dika to register and for more information. \nTalk Title\nSartre and the Problem of Others \nTalk Abstract\nJean-Paul Sartre claims in Being and Nothingness that “‘being-seen-by-the-Other’ is the truth of ‘seeing-the-Other’.” What does this claim mean? Is Sartre’s argument for it persuasive? I address the first question by juxtaposing Sartre’s approach to the problem of the other\, centered on “the Look\,” with Edith Stein’s approach\, focusing in particular on the place of ‘reiterated empathy’ in her theory. After reconstructing Sartre’s argument\, I offer an assessment. If Sartre is right that to understand an other as other is to understand her first and foremost as a free being\, being seen by the other is plausibly understood as ‘the truth’ of seeing the other. \nAbout the Continental Philosophy Group\nOne of six departmental research interest groups\, the Continental Philosophy Group works in the traditions of textual interpretation of human consciousness\, phenomenology\, and post-structuralist critical theory\, among other related traditions of thought.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/continental-philosophy-research-group-talk-joseph-schear-oxford-2/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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